When was Brissot guillotined?
31 August
31 July
31 October
31 December
Answer
On October 31, 1793, Jacques Pierre Brissot, a prominent leader of the Girondins, the moderate republican faction during the French Revolution, was executed by guillotine during the Reign of Terror. His political ideas clashed with the more radical Jacobins, leading to his eventual downfall and demise.
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